People

Staff

Elizabeth Villa (PI)
Professor of Molecular Biology
Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator

Steven Villareal
Lab Manager

Farhaz Shaikh
Research Associate

Anna Crie
Admin Coordinator

Lizbeth Hoffman
Research Technician, joint with Joe Pogliano

Postdoctoral Scholars

Annie Aindow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano

Siyu Chen
Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow

Josh Hutchings
EMBO Long-Term Postdoctoral Fellow

Koe Inlow
Postdoctoral Fellow, joint with Joe Pogliano

Jane Coffin Childs Postdoctoral Fellow,
joint with Sam Reck-Peterson’s Lab

Niklas Klusch
Schmidt Futures Postdoctoral Fellow

Phoolwanti Rani
Postdoctoral Fellow

Digvijay Singh
Damon Runyon and K99 Postdoctoral Fellow

Lindsey Young
NIH K00 Postdoctoral Fellow

Graduate Students

Tamar Basiashvili
Biochemistry & Biophysics Graduate Student

Madeleine Duquette
BioSci Graduate Student

Jelani Lyda
BioSci Grad Student, co-advised by Kit Pogliano

Amy Prichard
BioSci Grad Student, co-advised by Joe Pogliano

Miguel Ruiz
BioSci Graduate Student

Anna Tifrea
MD/PhD Student

Hannah Buschkämper
Visiting Graduate Student, Gene Center, LMU Munich

Maximilan Dreimann
Visiting Graduate Student, Heidelberg University

Undergraduate Students

Sahana Rangarajan
Undergraduate Researcher

Alex Flaherty
Undergraduate Researcher

Scholars Who Have Visited

Scholars Who have Visited

Joachim Frank
Professor, Columbia University
Visiting Scholar, February 2023

Karl Peter Hopfner
Professor, Gene, Center, LMU Munich
Visiting Scholar, 2022-2023

John Sedat
Professor, UCSF
Visiting Scholar, 2016-2019

Roland Beckkmann
Professor, Gene Center, LMU
Sabbatical Visitor, 2017

Alumni

Alumni

Arica VanderWal, Postdoctoral Fellow, 2022-2023 (Presently: Illy Lilly Postdoctoral Fellow)

Joan Molina Vargas, Visiting undergraduate Student, 2023

Kaia To, Under Grad, 2021-2023

Zaida Rodriguez, Grad Student, 2022-2023 (Presently: Graduate Student with Dmitry Lyumkis at the Salk Institute)

Courtney Millican, Administrative Assistant, 2022-2023 (Presently: Administrative Assistant, Looger Lab, UCSD)

Tom Laughlin, LSRF Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2022 (Presently: Scientist in Imaging Technologies, Altos Labs)

Vinson Lam, Grad Student, 2016-2022 (Presently: Cryo-EM Facility Staff, Life Sciences Institute, University of Michiigan)

Matt Croxford, Grad Student 2016-2022 (Presently: Research Scientist, Aferna Bio)

Vignesh Kasinath, NIH K99 Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-2021 (Presently: Assistant Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Colorado Boulder)

Sergey Suslov, Research Scientist, 2019-2021 (Presently: Application Scientist at ThermoFisher Scientific)

Kanika Khanna, Grad Student, 2014-2020 (Presently: Scientific Program Leader at the Gladstone Institute of Virology, UCSF)

Reika Watanabe, Staff Scientist, 2014-2020 (Presently: Scientific Associate at the La Jolla Institute of Immunology)

Martina Audagnotto, VMCC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-2020 (Presently: Senior Data Scientist, GSK Sweden)

Jan Böhning, MS Student, 2017-2018 (Presently: Graduate Student with Tanmay Bharat, LMB, Cambridge)

Robert Buschauer, MS student, 2016-2017 (Presently: Analyst at Wellington Partners Life Sciences)

Felix Wagner, MS Student, 2014-2015 (Presently: Principal Scientist at Odessey Therapeutics)